Аннотация:The paper presents various Russian language corpora to discuss professional advantages and cultural benefits of linguistic corpora technology in comparison with the pre-computational and pre-corpora state-of-the-art in language research and Arts and Humanities. As the most faithful ‘mirror’ of political, intellectual and spiritual life of a nation during current state and in historical perspective, linguistic corpora could be also applicable as innovative research methodology in wide variety of research projects in Social Sciences and Humanities. Some valuable examples are presented.
Index Terms—Language corpora, Linguistics, Russian National Corpus, research methodology in Corpus Linguistics